{font-encodings} is about the various font or output code pages like T1 (for Latin) or T2*x* (for Cyrillic) which tell the compiler where to find a particular glyph (character) in a font file, hereby supporting correct hyphenation of words. A popular package for pdfLaTeX is fontenc.

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